I have only just started this and these are my first ones. I think this arc has already been done but I just wanted to know what people think of them, please reply to tell me what you think.

01. Imaginate!:When Boredom Strikes

Mission Cleanliness

The First Comic With Ninjas In It

Negotiations Break Down

It Gets Worse

It Always Comes To An End

It has been done, actually, but doing this stuff for practice is always good. As for your job, you inherently did very well. However, it's easy to tell that you just colored the original image on the same layer. In deeper programs, like photoshop or GIMP (gimp is free), you can make multiple layers, which you can color to make the image cleaner than using the fill bucket on the same layer.

That is very good, It's about the same if not better then what I made when I started with this.

As for constructive feedback,You forgotten to color some things, like grapes yellow eyes, and peanuts tongue.I'd also like to say that i'm not very fond of the shading, I'd suggest making it in a very minor light tone, and not bright white.as for the shadow shading, don't drop it in the background like that, it makes it look like cutouts .

don't worry tough, I am guilty of doing these things myself back in the day, practice makes perfect, keep at it!

PS.(Check the first posts to see witch one have and have not been made)

Thanks for your replies, I will take it all on board.What software do you use for colouring it in, I use Corel PaintShop Pro X3 is that any good? Also I don't understand how layers work, could you please explain?This might be basic information to you but I am only 15!

Thanks for your replies, I will take it all on board.What software do you use for colouring it in, I use Corel PaintShop Pro X3 is that any good? Also I don't understand how layers work, could you please explain?This might be basic information to you but I am only 15!

Well, I don't know if this information will help but I use Photoshop 7 / CS2 and up as my preference, any software can work just as fine as long as you know how to use it tough.

Kyderra Wrote:

first thing you need to find out is how to use layers, once you understand how layers and multiply works, it's pretty easy.

The only real diffrence is that you select the correct color, and leave the brush hardness on 100%Also, a nice tip is to hold Alt and click a drawing, will select that color.

If you notice'd, i have two colors for some, the smaller dot means I use that color, and set the layer on overall.I normally do this when the background is NOT white, but a shade of gray.(like Peanuts ear and tail, and grapes overall purple fur)

Not sure if you can open this, (I have Cs2), but:download link to one of my Photoshop documents.Perhaps some of you can use it for reference's

It has been done, actually, but doing this stuff for practice is always good. As for your job, you inherently did very well. However, it's easy to tell that you just colored the original image on the same layer. In deeper programs, like photoshop or GIMP (gimp is free), you can make multiple layers, which you can color to make the image cleaner than using the fill bucket on the same layer.

Thanks for the help. It has helped me out a lot. I will continue to do this in the future. Thanks.Any ideas on how to make it so that the colours are better and so I don't have to use fill bucket, (see quote above, I made the key part bold)

The shading tutorial I posted is also how I found it best to color it.the only difference is that you stay in the lines and use a color.

As for a "fill bucket" option, when you use that, select the layer with the drawings on it, and take a magic wand to selected the outline.then switch to the layer you are currently using to color, and past it on there.

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Fri Aug 22, 2014 1:31 am

renato

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Re: Colored B&W versions [Refur project]

Here we are with "Delicious, Delicious Food".As you know I'm italian, and Thanksgiving dinner is something outside my personal experience, so please let me knowif I did something wrong with the palette, 'cause all I know for sure is that there's a turkey on the table...

Cesco, you did an amazing work, I cant wait to see the last strips from the Grove's arc.

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I asked Rick for his best guess at remembering his artistic decisions from 6 years ago, and this was the reply:

rickgriffin Wrote:

Man, I don't remember. If I had to guess I'd say, left to right, green bean casserole OR sweet potatoes, salad, stuffing, fresh bread, turkey with more stuffing

So on the left is actually a casserole in a bowl rather than a baguette, probably green bean casserole (possibly without the french onions around the edge). The salad looks good to me. The stuffing in the middle is a bread dish like this. The fresh bread looks nice and fresh. Then the turkey I always imagined more bronze, and the stuff coming out is more stuffing (as in the picture).Thanks for all the work you guys put into this, and thank you again Rick for your support

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Fri Aug 22, 2014 8:09 pm

renato

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Re: Colored B&W versions [Refur project]

Thanks Obbl, it's a pleasure to work on these beautiful strips.Let me say, stuffing is a hard stuff, for people with the right stuff (probably not me )It's quite difficult to reply a polichrome pattern with a single color.

Delicious, Delicious Food - take two

I'm open to suggestions, feel free to submit a better color palette for the food.Thanks for your precious help, Obbl, and thanks a lot to Rick for his wonderful work.

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Sat Aug 23, 2014 3:45 am

renato

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Re: Colored B&W versions [Refur project]

Hi nice people,last time I checked "Italian Translation R2" thread I found only three B&W strips, excluding the first three from 2007and the strip "2009-04-08-housepets-gets-political.png"(B&W published when Rick was already coloring his strips).So, yeah, there are seven B&W strips, but just three to be colored.

And then there were two

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Thu Sep 04, 2014 3:55 pm

Cesco

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Re: Colored B&W versions [Refur project]

Good to have colored the last one of "The Grove" arc story (it wasn't hard). I'm recoloring the other remaining two (which are harder), but I'm not having much time to do that at the moment, so I'm doing it slowly.

The lighted up parts of Grape should have their original color.

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Thu Sep 04, 2014 4:38 pm

renato

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Re: Colored B&W versions [Refur project]

Hi Cescosorry to confute your statement about the colors, but to be in original colors the lighted white parts of Grape's fur had to bepure white in the B&W original, and they were not, they were gray, so I based on this difference the global lighting for panels 2, 3 and 4.Very happy you are working on the last two, can't wait to see them.

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Thu Sep 04, 2014 4:59 pm

Cesco

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Re: Colored B&W versions [Refur project]

At the end, Renato is doing the last two remaining strips. He's doing a better work and with more time availability, unlike me. Let's wait for his posting of them.

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Mon Sep 08, 2014 10:01 pm

Stan Collier

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Re: Colored B&W versions [Refur project]

These look good. Try removing the highlighting. Rick doesn't use that much.

Carty1234 Wrote:

I have only just started this and these are my first ones. I think this arc has already been done but I just wanted to know what people think of them, please reply to tell me what you think.

At the end, Renato is doing the last two remaining strips. He's doing a better work and with more time availability, unlike me. Let's wait for his posting of them.

As you say time is the key, and your works are very often better then mine. I hope to post both strips later today. Those last two were a real nightmare...

Stan Collier Wrote:

These look good. Try removing the highlighting. Rick doesn't use that much.

Carty1234 Wrote:

I have only just started this and these are my first ones.(...)please reply to tell me what you think.

Well, Stan, this is a veeery long running thread, so even if it is in the same page , Carty1234's post was wrote almost 3 years ago I'm quite sure he refined his style by now

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Tue Sep 09, 2014 1:16 am

renato

Joined: Tue Jul 01, 2014 9:57 amPosts: 95Location: Turin, Italy

Re: Colored B&W versions [Refur project]

Hi there,as I said few posts ago the count for uncolored strips in the "Italian Translation R.2" thread told us that there were only twostrips still in B&W (excluding four not to be colored for historical reasons)

... and then there were none!

- And She Said It Had No Practical Value -

- Most Pertinent Of Questions -

So, dear Kiderra, this would be a perfect moment to update the link's list at the start of this post.

For whome is actually interested to find a chronologically ordered choice (Valerio's choice) of the best colored stripsI suggest a visit to the Italian Translation R.2 thread.

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